Quotes by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Page 1

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life.
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Spots
Stars
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God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.
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Worship
Life Love God
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Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
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I have friends among the Christians, whom I love, and never for a moment have I thought of attacking their Christianity.
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A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
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Burden
Description
Equal
Greater
Shoulders
Stronger
Words
Beyond
Carry
Must
No Words
Powers
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There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
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Christianity
Dogma
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Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
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Dogma
Endure
Essence
Great People Will
Great Always People
Apparatus
Thousands
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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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Conditions
Minimum
Political People Will
Asleep
Attain
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Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
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Verge
Life Love Wife
Beside
Herself
Your Child
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Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
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Infinite
Poetic
Resources
Sublime
Sunshine
Life Faith Great
Battlefield
Guided
Shakespeare
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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